The result was keep. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 20:13, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
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Apart from some very brief mentions in RS: [1] [2] [3] I'm unable to find any coverage which demonstrates that WP:BIO is met. SmartSE (talk) 16:19, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
Hodgkinson is notable because she replaced Charles "Cully" Stimson following his controversial resignationobviously isn't much use. I hadn't though to check google scholar, but her most cited publication appears to be this with 26 citations, so meeting WP:ACADEMIC is unlikely. All I'm seeing on Google Books is brief mentions. Please specify which sources you think push her over the notability threshold and support your claim of "significant controverial opinions -- as substantiated by RS." SmartSE (talk) 08:46, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
No one is claiming that Hodgkinson measures up to ACADEMIC, and that her measuring up to ACADEMIC should supercede GNG.
Only a small fraction of BLP measure up to SOLDIER, ACADEMIC, etc. Your mistake is to then act like the scholarly references that support Hodgkinson measuring up to GNG should be totally discounted. For the 95 or 97 or 99 percent of BLP whose notability is established by measuring up to GNG, not by measuring up to a special purpose guideline, like ACADEMIC, the nominator, ie you, and everyone else weighing in, has an obligation to independently evaluate all the known and knowable notability criteria, and then doing a kind of notability calculation, where they add up all those notability factors.
The US Federal government is very large - employing millions. Does it employ tens of millions? How many people retire every year? 200,000? 300,000? When Hodgkinson retired she didn't immediately go to work as a lawyer, or for a large corporation. She accepted a fellowship, for a year or two. That is when she wrote those academic papers. Only the very smartest, most respected retiring Federal employees get invited to accept a fellowship. Some of those highly respected individuals who accept fellowships don't go on to write academic papers. They share what they learned, in government service, verbally, in seminars, or informal discussions. Those, like Hodgkinson, who do write papers, are more valuable that those who don't. Do these fellowships come with a stipend? Are they like a Post-doctoral fellowship? Can fellows who show they function like professors, by leading seminars, giving lectures, jump to being full-fledged academics? Good question. I dunno. Some fellowships may be part-time, with no stipend. Other may offer a stipend no higher than that offered to a grad student serving as a teaching assistant. And still others may pay comparably to actual professors. I suggest that, since only a tiny fraction of retiring Federal employees get one, even the largely honorary fellowship is highly prestigious, and confers considerable notability. Geo Swan (talk) 22:17, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
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